[yocto] Creating a volatile image

[Burton, Ross]

On 3 July 2013 08:48, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, is it practical to make the existing file system readonly? My
> system is based on core-image-base, with no graphics. What will break if it
> can't write to anything outside of /tmp or /run or /media/ram or
> /var/volatile? And is there a built-in way to do that?

You can set the "read-only-rootfs" image feature (never tried it
myself, so YMMV), but if you turn off atime writes to / you won't be
making that many writes to / anyway.

Ross